Late last week when Google Plus began opening up to more and more users, the leaders of the project said they were doing their best to include speakers of more than 40 different languages around the world. How geographically distributed were these first users? I thought I’d ask, on Google Plus itself, just where people were.

Judges in Florida use a criminal punishment code scoresheet to determine presumptive sentences. The form was developed by the Florida Department of Corrections and classifies offenses into levels of severity. Each level receives a certain amount of points on the scoresheet. The formula also takes into account factors such as injury caused by the crime and an offender’s prior record. After completing the scoresheet, judges can then sentence lower or higher than the presumptive sentence.

As summer kicked off in the last few years, I’ve been sharing tips and tools to help young students hone schools skills while having some fun. We learned about these 10 games in 2009, and these tips for keeping math skills in shape over the summer break in 2010.

Will Google+ eventually dominate the social networking sphere and turn Facebook into Myspace? That’s for another post, but for now, let’s take a look at some of the things you should know about when you first start using Google+.